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Sto caricando le informazioni... More Curious (edizione 2014)di Sean Wilsey (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Almost all the essays were 25-50% too long for their content, which made boredom a constant companion while I read this book. The only exception was the essay on skateboarding, which was interesting from first word to last. ( ) I thoroughly enjoyed this book of essays. I've always wanted to go to Marfa (one of the few places in Texas I *haven't* visited yet), so the fact that this book began and ended with tales of Marfa was a delight. Made me want to visit more than ever. Well, except for the description of black widow spiders. Wilsey has a knack for drawing you into a specific time and place and what it felt like to be there. I think I was most surprised by how much I enjoyed the essay on skateboarding. I never would have guessed that would be one of my favorites. Not sure what else Wilsey has written, but I would certainly pick up another of his books. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In More Curious, Sean Wilsey travels across the U.S., from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, to the isolated artists' enclave of Marfa, Texas, to the boardrooms and ballrooms of post-9/11 New York City. Wherever he is, Wilsey captures his surroundings with the precision of a photographer and the raw grace of a skateboarder (he's an amateur practitioner of both arts). And his eye always finds an unrivaled intensity of detail: here, and only here, will a reader be privy to the Dostoyevskian whiff of Marfa's fugitive underbelly, the unsung delights of a skater rag's cooking column, the exact amount of time elapsed since the soundwaves of a long-lost, legendary World Cup broadcast passed out of our solar system. These essays--originally published in Vanity Fair, GQ, McSweeney's, and elsewhere--comprise nearly fifteen years of Wilsey's most vital work on the glory and the misery, the beauty and absurdity of contemporary America. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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